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FOI #24-405 (08-23-24, 11:48 am) - Subject - Dates
Name - Tyler Saremi
Affiliation -
Dates Lyndsey Masterson sat on Wellfleet Students Advisory Committee, Board of Directors, Advisory Board, or any other boards. This is in no relation to any RFP. Simply Freedom of Information Act request.
Pursuant to Connecticut's Public Records laws, I’d like to request electronic copies of all non-conference game contracts and related addendums for the 2024-2025 season for the UConn men's basketball program. Thank you for your time, it is appreciated.
FOI #24-403 - Subject - Iron Mountain Records Management
Name - Michael Cavallo
Affiliation -
Under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act § 1-200 et seq., I am requesting an opportunity to obtain copies of public records that are vendor invoices and current contract with the following Vendor: Iron Mountain Records Management. The service billed with these invoices are offsite record storage services. I would like to receive copies of this vendor’s invoices from April 2024, May 2024 & June 2024
John Boudreau
State of Connecticut Agency CT STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE - CAPITAL
FOI #24-402 (08-21-24, 12:58 pm) - Subject - MF030122-3
Name - John Boudreau
Affiliation - State of Connecticut Agency CT STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE - CAPITAL
STATE CC- Capital Campus is undertaking a rebranding initiative and will be updating all campus signage. To help our campus facilitate this, could Uconn please provide the actual contract link or file for MF030122-3?
So that I may include this contract in my purchase requisition within the CSCU procurement system, which utilizes UCONN contracts to streamline some of our purchases.
FOI #24-400 (08-21-24, 8:06 am) - Subject - Project bid information for UConn Field House Renovation - Phase 2A - Early Release Electrical Package - 20210041
Name - Jona Albana
Affiliation - ConstructConnect
I’m with ConstructConnect. We’re currently reporting on the above-mentioned project and I was hoping you can help me obtain bid information.
Can I get a copy of any addenda that have been released to date?
What is the estimated construction budget?
Can I get a copy of the plan holder’s list?
Do you have Union Requirements?
Stephen Cyr
Derrevere Law
UConn Storrs
Complete
FOI #24-399 - Subject -
Name - Stephen Cyr
Affiliation - Derrevere Law
Please accept this letter as our request for any and all records in your fiies related to a fire that occurred on April 21, 2024 involving the property located at 44 Avonwood Road, in Avon, Connecticut, including but not limited to reports, photographs, and video. This request is being made pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in anticipation of litigation. If you are investigating the above-referenced fire as potentially caused by arson, kindly include with your response your investigative file, including but not limited to any recommendation for criminal charges if applicable.
FOI #24-398 (08-19-24, 10:27 am) - Subject - UConn and Unicor
Name - Ashad Hajela
Affiliation - Connecticut Public
I am seeking copies of any and all communications from Jan 1, 2021-present, including emails and any attachments, between the University of Connecticut and Unicor/the Bureau of Prisons.
These should include emails from the domains @usdoj.gov or @bop.gov.
FOI #24-396 (08-19-24, 6:45 am) - Subject - Defamation of Emma Roberts Following Her Decision to Attend Sarah Lawrence College When She Was 20 Years Old
Name - Michael Ayele (a.k.a) W
Affiliation - Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W ORCID.: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5780-6457
What I am requesting for prompt disclosure are records in your possession detailing your discussions about [1] Emma Roberts as the founder of the book club Belletrist who has on (or around) July 05th 2024 (i) recognized that her professional career was very much adversely impacted by Internet trolls who wrote negative reviews (on the movie projects she worked on) solely for the purpose of perpetuating hate; (ii) condemned the culture of anonymous Internet trolling; [2] the decision of the Google and Bing/MSN Internet Search Engines (ISE) to very highly rank (and rate) a January 05th 2012 condescending, patronizing and sexist hit piece (i) whenever someone types in “Emma Roberts Sarah Lawrence College” and then presses the “Enter” keyboard; (ii) wherein Emma Roberts was referred to as an “entitled, smug little brat” for pursuing other endeavors rather than prioritizing her undergraduate academic career at Sarah Lawrence College (located in Bronxville, New York); (iii) that fails to deal with the freshmen undergraduate retention rate at Sarah Lawrence College during the time period Emma Roberts was a full-time undergraduate student; (iv) that fails to deal with the policies and procedures implemented by Sarah Lawrence College to provide a good and positive college experience to their freshmen undergraduate students for the purpose of improving their freshmen undergraduate retention rate; [3] the decision of the Bing/MSN ISE not to filter and distort the January 05th 2012 defamatory hit piece, which targeted Emma Roberts; [4] the strong likelihood that the January 05th 2012 misogynistic hit piece targeting Emma Roberts would have been called out if it had been directed at Taylor Swift; [5] the widespread May 2024 criticism, which had been directed at Kansas City Chief football player Harrison Butker following his decision to quote a Taylor Swift lyric during a speech he gave at Benedictine College (located in the Atchison, Kansas) where he went on to tell the graduates there that women should prioritize above everything else getting married and having children (after earning their Bachelor’s Degree); [6] DataCite Commons as a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registering organization, which has on its official website (in the past) recognized that journal articles published or added on Figshare, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) – Zenodo, Open Science Framework (OSF) and ORCID “maximize their usefulness” when the data within is not modified “to make it false, incomplete, defamatory, or misleading;” [7] Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W as a Black Bachelor of Arts (B.A) Degree graduate of Westminster College (Fulton, Missouri) who was informed by CERN - Zenodo, Figshare and OSF that they could not make any guarantees on journal articles published on their platforms appearing “as is” on ISE such as AOL, Bing/MSN and Yahoo...